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Jake Strole
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Rebate Rule Is Dead: Supply Chain Benefits, Drug Firms Pressured

First reported July 10 by Axios, the Trump administration is not planning to finalize the proposed rule altering the flow of drug rebates purchased through Medicare Part D plans. The rule would have changed the business model of pharmacy benefit managers, requiring any negotiated discounts to be passed directly to the beneficiary at the point of sale rather than used as a mechanism to lower the costs to the insurance plan overall. While this led to a rally for PBMs/insurers and distributors, dru...
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Cigna Corporation

Cigna is a global health service organization. The company's segments are: Integrated Medical, which includes its employer-sponsored medical coverage and Medicare offerings for seniors and individual insurance offerings to non-seniors both on and off the public health insurance exchanges; Health Services, which consists of the pharmacy benefit management and certain health management services; International Markets, which provides a range of medical and supplemental health, life, and accident benefits to individuals and employers; and Group Disability and Other, which includes its commercial long- and short-term disability products, and its term life group insurance products.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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